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Be friendly. The IzPack community has always been like that and we don't want that to change!

A new feature must always be documented, else there is no point in adding it!

Any fix idea or enhancement code change must be attached to reported in an issue from our JIRA instance (this allows proper planning of the .This helps us to have an overview what's going on, to plan releases as well as generating complete and meaningful release notes).

Please keep in mind that most IzPack developers are volunteers that are not paid for developing it. We do it for fun on our free time, so please don't expect the same level of support as if we were a company (but we're doing our best to be as close to that as possible ).

Recommendations for developers

Always mention the JIRA issue that is related to your commit (e.g., "Fix for JIRA-123").Especially use the JIRA issue ID(s) in the title of the pull request - in this case there is automatically created a link to your pull request in the according JIRA issue(s).

When doing a commit based on a patch from a contributor, make sure to mention the contributor name in the comment (e.g. "Fix for JIRA-123. (Contributor name)" ).

Never commit incomplete changes (GIT is not a backup system).

Working on experimental changes is encouraged, but in this case use a branch.

Use a Git branch per issue, best with a JIRA issue ID as branch name.This allows you to easily send updates to pull requests, for instance if you get errors in the connected CI builders.

Reporting issues and improving the documentation

Always create a JIRA issue in case of bug, improvement or new feature. You can follow progess progress of your issue there.

DonIn case you located a necessary change in the code, don't send bigger patches, try to fork the master repository at Github and create a pull request instead.If you can't send a pull request for some reason and you have a patch, then attach it to the JIRA issue.Make sure you send a real diff-generated patch, not whole files or ZIPs with the modified files... (Several programs will generate this, for example: IntelliJ, Eclipse, Netbeans, TortoiseSVN,...)

Do not hesitate to attach screenshots and stack traces.

In case of a new feature proposal make sure to attach documentation to an according JIRA issue.

Subscribe to the developer mailing list if you want to follow IzPack development conversations.Avoid sending patches or copying code parts with patches to the mailing lists - this blows up discussion threads and probably nobody will be able to handle this, thus, it will be probably ignored. If you have particular suggestions, send it as pull request for an easy reviewed by everyone.

Respect code format styles! Otherwise we have a hard time trying to merge your code.

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Look at the code carefuly to ensure that it is of good quality

Obviously... test it

Attach your review to the related JIRA issue

Send your review to the dev mailing-list if needed.

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You may prefer putting braces on end of lines rather than on new lines, but in this case please don't be feel offended when we run code formatting from times to times

Taking the project from version repository you will have Eclipse settings for the IDE and code formatting.